TY  - JOUR
A1  - Farhy, Yael
A1  - Veríssimo, Joao Marques
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
T1  - Universal and particular in morphological processing
BT  - evidence from Hebrew
JF  - The quarterly journal of experimental psychology
N2  - Do properties of individual languages shape the mechanisms by which they are processed? By virtue of their non-concatenative morphological structure, the recognition of complex words in Semitic languages has been argued to rely strongly on morphological information and on decomposition into root and pattern constituents. Here, we report results from a masked priming experiment in Hebrew in which we contrasted verb forms belonging to two morphological classes, Paal and Piel, which display similar properties, but crucially differ on whether they are extended to novel verbs. Verbs from the open-class Piel elicited familiar root priming effects, but verbs from the closed-class Paal did not. Our findings indicate that, similarly to other (e.g., Indo-European) languages, down-to-the-root decomposition in Hebrew does not apply to stems of non-productive verbal classes. We conclude that the Semitic word processor is less unique than previously thought: Although it operates on morphological units that are combined in a non-linear way, it engages the same universal mechanisms of storage and computation as those seen in other languages.
KW  - Language universals
KW  - morphology
KW  - priming
KW  - Semitic
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/17470218.2017.1310917
SN  - 1747-0218
SN  - 1747-0226
VL  - 71
IS  - 5
SP  - 1125
EP  - 1133
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Fleischhauer, Elisabeth
T1  - Morphological priming in child German
JF  - Journal of child language
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000913000494
SN  - 0305-0009
SN  - 1469-7602
VL  - 41
IS  - 6
SP  - 1305
EP  - 1333
PB  - Cambridge Univ. Press
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Clahsen, Harald
A1  - Hansen, Detlef
T1  - Profiling linguistic disability in German-speaking children
JF  - Assessing Grammar : the Languages of LARSP
Y1  - 2012
SN  - 978-1-8476-9639-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.21832/9781847696397-007
SP  - 77
EP  - 91
PB  - Multilingual Matters
CY  - Bristol
ER  -